FitBit New Feature Will Measure How Well You Sleep and Track Your Snoring

A Fitbit new feature is on it way. The app has offered sleep-tracking on its devices since 2017. Since the start, that functionality has mostly focused on measuring your heart rate and movement to provide you with a breakdown of your sleep cycles.

However, Fitbit could soon measure how well you sleep from another angle.

Fitbit to Track Snoring

Conducting an APK teardown of the latest version on the company's Android app, 9to5Google found evidence of a nearly complete snore and noise detection feature.

The tool, as the name states, allows you to use the microphone on your tracker or smartwatch to measure how much of the night you spend snoring. It will translate the total amount of time into a percentage, further grouping that into one of three categories.

For example, if you spent 10% to 40% of the night snoring, it will classified as a moderate case.

Fitbit admits the feature can't differentiate between people. So if your partner snores too, it will include their contribution in the detection mix, as per Engadget.

You can also use the tool to measure the ambient noise in your bedroom. Fitbit will tell you how loud it is in your sleeping environment on a scale between very quiet, which the company classifies as a consistent 30 dBA or less, and very loud, which falls in the 90 dBA and above range.

As you might imagine, leaving your Fitbit's microphone on all night is one way to quickly drain its battery. The company recommends charging the device to at least 40% before you go to bed. It also warns that you will need to plug it into the power more frequently should you decide to use the feature consistently.

Based on the 9to5Google screenshots, Fitbit details how the feature works, and it shows that the sleep and noise detect tool looks like it is nearly ready for rollout.

As with most of Fitbit's tracking features, the data only goes so far if you do not do something with it. Losing weight, for instance, can help with consistent snoring, but that is a lifestyle change you have to make on your own, according to Gizmodo.

Fitbit Charing Cables

In another 9to5Google report, the Fitbit Luxe is the Google-owned company's first fitness tracker to have a color display. With the Luxe, Fitbit was rumored to finally adopt USB-C for the charging cable.

The fans were left wondering if Fitbit will release USB-C cables for the most recent devices, but that would be a nice move for those who keep around a USB-A charger for the sole purpose of charging their wearables.

Fitbit's website says Luxe pre-orders will ship in June, while third-party retailers do not have a launch date yet.

Now, Fitbit Luxe expected not to use a USB-C connector and that the image included on the accessory product listing was just a sample.

Rather, the upcoming tracker will use USB-A. That phot on Fitbit.com is also used by various retailers selling the Fitbit Luxe charging cable. The casing surrounding the connector is too narrow to fit USB-A.

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Written by Sophie Webster